Primarily based on my years of watching Huge Brother earlier than and throughout the 2024 TV season, being named a Have-Not is concerning the worst factor that may occur to you within the sport. These unfortunate Houseguests are compelled to spend per week consuming slop, sleeping in a number of the worst situations in Have-Not Rooms, and taking chilly showers till their week ends. It is a substantial a part of the sport, although it not often will get display time on episodes anymore, so why is it nonetheless taking place? Happily, Huge Brother‘s EPs have been prepared with a solution and gave me some hope they may swap it up.
Wealthy Meehan and Allison Grodner spoke to EW after the optimistic fan response to Season 26 and what’s forward for the longer term. Since they’re already ‘very probably’ making one huge change to the sport, it appeared truthful to ask about altering one other ingredient. Meehan first began by explaining why Have-Not speak does not get a ton and generally zero display time within the episodes, particularly in comparison with the older seasons of Huge Brother:
We speak about it each season. The explanation why we do not actually service the story is that there is simply a lot now on this trendy period of Huge Brother. There’s a lot occurring game-wise and strategy-wise, and within the early days it simply wasn’t as energetic as it’s at this time, so there was time to service that story.
The traditional seasons of Huge Brother, all at present out there on streaming with a Paramount+ subscription, had house in episodes to do meals challenges that might dictate the groceries the home obtained for that week. It was a enjoyable ingredient, and I might like to see one thing like that return in a contemporary season. Primarily based on Wealthy Meehan’s feedback above, although, I do not suppose there’s room within the episodes to focus on it.
So, if there isn’t any time to focus on the Have-Not choice and who’s going with out, why accomplish that? As Wealthy Meehan defined, there’s a legitimate cause to maintain it in Huge Brother, even when those that are watching the reside feeds are the one ones conserving tabs on who’s or is not being punished every week:
There’s something to the Have and Have-Not nature of the home and the way it makes individuals really feel and the way it impacts the psychology of the sport. So we have stored it for that cause, despite the fact that we do not essentially service it on the present. However we have now talked about: Is there a brand new take? I simply do not know.
As a lot as I might like to see Have-Nots go away, I agree with Wealthy Meehan. It is a core a part of Huge Brother technique, and if you wish to win BB, you higher volunteer to be a Have-Not no less than as soon as. Those that do not will see the nomination block rapidly and infrequently be despatched dwelling for refusing to make sacrifices to assist others.
In fact, after seasons of it being irrelevant to the plot, Allison Grodner identified Have-Nots did issue into the storyline of Huge Brother 26. Even Brooklyn Rivera was stunned to see her storyline revolved round consuming Angela Murray’s charcuterie board when the latter Houseguest couldn’t. As humorous as every little thing that got here from that was, it would’ve ensured we’ll get Have-Nots for the subsequent three seasons due to how a lot it was talked about on-line.
Wealthy Meehan and Allison Grodner have mentioned many issues since Huge Brother Season 26, together with lately confirming that the spinoff Reindeer Video games is not going to return this vacation season. The excellent news is that it merely got here all the way down to there not being sufficient time in CBS’ winter schedule, so there’s a likelihood we’ll see it return in 2025. It additionally feels like there is a good likelihood of seeing extra Have-Nots in 2025, however we’ll have to attend and see for certain.
Huge Brother will return to CBS with Season 27 this summer time. Proceed to observe previous seasons on Paramount+, or take a look at the 24/7 channel on Pluto TV to observe ad-supported previous seasons without spending a dime.